Weekend View: Sinking of ex-USS Conolly (DD 979)

by OldSailor on May 2, 2009

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Ex USS Conolly (DD 979) destroyer, named after Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly was sunk as a target during the sinking exercise (SINKEX) of the multinational exercise UNITAS Gold on April 29. The warship was decommissioned on September 18, 1998 after 20 years of service.

Some interesting features of UNITAS Gold are:

The annual UNITAS exercise series consists of two phases — Atlantic and Pacific.

UNITAS Gold 2009 is being conducted as a single two-week exercise as the 50th performance of multinational partnership-building exercise.